Thomas Fillitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 588104 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Fillitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Fillitz |
| SIGNATURE | FILLITZ T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Dak’Art Off. Between Local Art Forms and Global Art Canon Discourses
Critical considerations of the impact of biennials on artistic practices worldwide emphasize that they create new hegemonies: biennials produce another canon of contemporary art at a global scale. The main characteristic is art’s insertion into society, with the primacy of installation and participatory art forms.This article examines these assumptions in considering the art shown in the field of Dak’Art Off, an initiative of Dakar’s artists in o…
Introduction: Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts
Short versions of the following articles were presented at the panel ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature,’ which Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University) and I organized at the fifteenth biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Stockholm 2018. The panel’s success, however, is also largely due to Helena Wulff, who provided invaluable ideas for its concept…
Anthropology and discourses on global art: Anthropology and Discourses on Global Art
The notion of ‘global art’ acknowledges that there are major changes in the art worlds‐network, and refers to new concepts of contemporary art and art worlds. The anthropology of art, however, has participated in a limited way in these art theoretical debates, although it could fruitfully contribute to them. This article discusses one major issue of global art using three ethnographic examples from Francophone West Africa: how to analyse the loca…
L’objet d’art africain contemporain: Présence Et Représentation
Tout objet d'art se présente d'abord dans son medium – peinture, installation, etc. – et c'est par celui-ci que nous percevons l'objet comme appartenant au domaine de l'art. Dans cet article, je me pencherai d'une part sur deux cycles de l'artiste ivoirien Théodore Koudougnon à travers leur combinaison particulière entre medium et image, et d'autre part sur le rôle du medium dans les productions culturelles de l'art africain contemporain avec l'e…
Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
The booming global market of contemporary art
The present economic and financial crises do not seem to particularly influence the global art market of contemporary art. In an attempt to understand this apparent opposition, I adopt a macro perspective, combining my own research ventures in Dakar and Vienna with general art market studies. I argue that this market is a special representation of millennial capitalism (Comaroff and Comaroff 2001). The global art market puts in place an organizat…
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Weltkunst
Hochkultur
Zivilisation
The notion of art
Challenging the Global Art World
Introduction. Threatening communication: The discomfort of proximity
Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond: Perspectives From Social Anthropology
By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate wi…
Viennese Museums and Galleries
Uthmân dan Fodio et la question du pouvoir en pays haoussa
Dans cet article, le jihâd de 'Uthmân dan Fodio sera considéré sous les aspects suivants : d'une part il s'agira d'analyser les fondements de son pouvoir, son temps de prêcheur itinérant, l'intensification du conflit avec le pouvoir haoussa, ainsi que son argumentation pour légitimer le jihâd. D'autre part, nous mentionnerons brièvement les idées qui ont influencé le shaykh peul et le rôle de son frère 'Abdullahi, qui sera considéré comme l'idéol…
Austrian Colleagues Protest Haider
Le quotidien des Rukuba
Intellectual Elites and the Production of Ideology
Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional com…
Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional com…
Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
The booming global market of contemporary art
The present economic and financial crises do not seem to particularly influence the global art market of contemporary art. In an attempt to understand this apparent opposition, I adopt a macro perspective, combining my own research ventures in Dakar and Vienna with general art market studies. I argue that this market is a special representation of millennial capitalism (Comaroff and Comaroff 2001). The global art market puts in place an organizat…
Intellectual Elites and the Production of Ideology
Ideology and the Formation of Early States
Eighteen authors from 10 countries offer an assessment of the role of ideology in the emergence and development of early states. In a comparative perspective the significance of ideology in the processes that led to formation of states in Europe, Africa, Meso-America and Polynesia is discussed by specialists in the fields of anthropology, history and archaeology. Special attention is given to subjects such as the concept of ideology, regional com…
Le quotidien des Rukuba
Uthmân dan Fodio et la question du pouvoir en pays haoussa
Dans cet article, le jihâd de 'Uthmân dan Fodio sera considéré sous les aspects suivants : d'une part il s'agira d'analyser les fondements de son pouvoir, son temps de prêcheur itinérant, l'intensification du conflit avec le pouvoir haoussa, ainsi que son argumentation pour légitimer le jihâd. D'autre part, nous mentionnerons brièvement les idées qui ont influencé le shaykh peul et le rôle de son frère 'Abdullahi, qui sera considéré comme l'idéol…
Austrian Colleagues Protest Haider
Viennese Museums and Galleries
Introduction. Threatening communication: The discomfort of proximity
Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond: Perspectives From Social Anthropology
By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties in the past, these recent movements mostly operate wi…
The notion of art
Challenging the Global Art World
Weltkunst
Hochkultur
Zivilisation
Debating Authenticity
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
The booming global market of contemporary art
The present economic and financial crises do not seem to particularly influence the global art market of contemporary art. In an attempt to understand this apparent opposition, I adopt a macro perspective, combining my own research ventures in Dakar and Vienna with general art market studies. I argue that this market is a special representation of millennial capitalism (Comaroff and Comaroff 2001). The global art market puts in place an organizat…
Anthropology and discourses on global art: Anthropology and Discourses on Global Art
The notion of ‘global art’ acknowledges that there are major changes in the art worlds‐network, and refers to new concepts of contemporary art and art worlds. The anthropology of art, however, has participated in a limited way in these art theoretical debates, although it could fruitfully contribute to them. This article discusses one major issue of global art using three ethnographic examples from Francophone West Africa: how to analyse the loca…
L’objet d’art africain contemporain: Présence Et Représentation
Tout objet d'art se présente d'abord dans son medium – peinture, installation, etc. – et c'est par celui-ci que nous percevons l'objet comme appartenant au domaine de l'art. Dans cet article, je me pencherai d'une part sur deux cycles de l'artiste ivoirien Théodore Koudougnon à travers leur combinaison particulière entre medium et image, et d'autre part sur le rôle du medium dans les productions culturelles de l'art africain contemporain avec l'e…
Dak’Art Off. Between Local Art Forms and Global Art Canon Discourses
Critical considerations of the impact of biennials on artistic practices worldwide emphasize that they create new hegemonies: biennials produce another canon of contemporary art at a global scale. The main characteristic is art’s insertion into society, with the primacy of installation and participatory art forms.This article examines these assumptions in considering the art shown in the field of Dak’Art Off, an initiative of Dakar’s artists in o…
Introduction: Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts
Short versions of the following articles were presented at the panel ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature,’ which Paula Uimonen (Stockholm University) and I organized at the fifteenth biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Stockholm 2018. The panel’s success, however, is also largely due to Helena Wulff, who provided invaluable ideas for its concept…
Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This collection interrogates the notion of authenticity from an anthropological point of vi…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (4 works) · Politics (4 works)